Home

SET OUT ON THE PILGRIMAGE

Welcome to the 2016 CTBI Lent course

The CTBI Lent Course 2016 represents a departure in style and format from that offered in previous years. Each week, we are invited to gather in groups for reflection and spiritual conversation around a series of themes drawn from the overarching title of Pilgrimage’. The idea is that we embark on a spiritual journey through Lent, both alone and in company, sharing with others our personal reflections, stories and insights.

The notion of ‘Pilgrimage’ is presented in the form of collections of sayings, images, wisdom and prayers from a variety of sources, which are gathered into a pack of seven conversation booklets suitable for personal and group use. Each member of a group will need their own copy of the pack, which will be used as a personal journal. However the materials are also available online, particularly allowing listeners to BBC Radio 4 and Local Radio who might join the conversation on a more occasional basis.

The Open Road

Where the invitation is to undertake a particular kind of journey, a sacred journey which involves both inner and outer dimensions. As we set out, what is our desire, or longing?

WEEK TWO

Taking and Leaving

Focus on choice. How do we choose what to keep, what we require for inner vitality and balance, and what to leave behind, things which may once have helped us but we now find burdensome and obstructive?

Pilgrim Living

When we contemplate the significance of our pilgrim journey for the future. What people, networks, ideas, insights have we discovered that will continue to inspire us?

Lent Pilgrimage 7: Pilgrim Living

Easter Sunday

Live from Worcester Cathedral with Celebrant the Right Reverend John Inge, Bishop of Worcester.

The preacher is the Dean, the Very Reverend Peter Atkinson with festive hymns and other Easter music from the Cathedral choir directed by Peter Nardone. The organ is played by Christopher Allsop. The Lay Clerks and girl choristers sing Haydn’s Little Organ Mass and David Willcocks’ arrangement of Sydney Carter’s Lord of the Dance as well as Mediaeval chant unique to the Worcester Cathedral.

This week’s featured site

Coventry Cathedral is one of the world’s oldest religious-based centres for reconciliation. Following the destruction of the Cathedral in 1940, Provost Howard made a commitment not to revenge, but to forgiveness and reconciliation with those responsible.

The ruined shell of the medieval Cathedral has become a spiritual home for many, reminding us of our human capacity both to destroy and to reach out to our enemies in friendship and reconciliation. The ruins speak so powerfully of this message that they have become a place of pilgrimage for people of all cultures and faiths. As well as providing a tranquil space for reflection, they are the City’s most important landmark and symbolic of its own destruction and resurrection.